From 50 mb to 75 mb

vacheron

Over the last 5 years I've had broadband services from 50mbps to 1300mbps... I am currently on a 200mbps sevice.

Our family are all streamers, usually a 4K smart TV, 1440p monitor and 2 mobiles, plus 1-2 people gaming, home automation systems and a home media server accessible outside the house.

We have NEVER had a situation where "normal" services (e-mail, browsing, streaming, facetime, social media etc.) delivered a noticeable slowdown due to the broadband speed and nobody in the family noticed any difference when i dropped us from 1300mbps to 200. (I obviously notice when downloading huge files etc, but if it takes 10 minutes rather than 4 once every couple of months, I just go make a cup of tea instead!).

So many people are being sold 900mbps+ services because their kids have a PlayStation, absolute mis-selling in my opinion.

Speed consistency, reliability, low latency and a reasonable upload are the things that make a difference, yet these are never or rarely quantified in the sales blurb.

Exodi

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81969724#Comment_81969724

Totally agree, I have network analytics running at our house.

We have 25 active devices, which includes 4 cameras streaming at max quality, a 4K TV in the living room and non-4K in other rooms, gaming, mobiles, etc our average usage over the month is 2.4Mbps.

Now this is an average which will include very little usage during the night. Our peak usage over the last month was one day where a game was downloaded from Steam. Excluding that our peak usage was around 80Mbps.

The starting fibre packages of ~100Mbps would be more than fine for us. For a typical household, I suspect the 67Mpbs 'superfast' broadband packages would be sufficient.

Yet countless households are running round with nearly Gigabit connection speeds… why? I side with you, parents taking out 900Mbps packages because their kids have a PlayStation is daft.

I cringed speaking to my sisters partner who fell into this trap, due to wireless signal strength issues. Instead of moving the router, or getting additional wireless access points, they think upgrading the speed of their connection will solve the issue.

"Speed consistency, reliability, low latency and a reasonable upload are the things that make a difference, yet these are never or rarely quantified in the sales blurb."

Truer words have never been spoken.

LightFlare

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81969472#Comment_81969472

true - range in itself shouldn’t be affected but speed at the same range will be.

Losing say 80% of a 20meg may make it unusable but the same 80% off 150 might be usable

tom192

Another vote for not needing the speed, single user house hold. Went from 35 to 1gig as it was a decent deal and I was curious and then have dropped back down to 150. I hardly ever maxed the 35.

tom192

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81970182#Comment_81970182

Your router will likely have a higher WiFi speed than your actual internet line speed. From memory I think WiFi 5 is around 800mb/s with WiFi 6 capable of 2400. This is the speed that the router can handle between devices, you would need to drop below what the router can do Vs distance and then it's the line speed limit so for lower line speeds you will have more wiggle room.

Hope that makes sense!